# OpenFOAM README for version 2.4.x

## Table of Contents

- 1. About OpenFOAM
- 2. Copyright
- 3. Download and installation instructions
- 4. Documentation
- 5. Reporting bugs in OpenFOAM
- 6. Contacting the OpenFOAM Foundation

## 1 About OpenFOAM

OpenFOAM is a free, open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software package released by the OpenFOAM Foundation. It has a large user base across most areas of engineering and science, from both commercial and academic organisations. OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics and electromagnetics.

## 2 Copyright

OpenFOAM is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the file `COPYING` in this directory or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/, for a description of the GNU General Public License terms under which you can copy the files.

## 3 Download and installation instructions

## 4 Documentation

## 5 Reporting bugs in OpenFOAM

## 6 Contacting the OpenFOAM Foundation

Date: 22nd May 2015

Created: 2015-05-22 Fri 15:29

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